When you hover on “My Account” or “Notifications” and click on any of the links under them it will try to send me to the link but instead it quickly forwards me back to the homepage. This only happens on the “My Account” or “Notifications” links.

I already try different web browsers: Safari, Firefox, and Chrome but still the same issue… Any tips?

The problem is that when you first set up wp and bp you automatically set up an administrators account for wp that is not automatically ported into (used by) bp once you install the bp plugin. This simple solution is to create an account for bp that is not your original wp username and account. Create a test account and you will see everything now works. Unfortunately you cannot use your email address or username from your admin account. If there is a way around this please advise.

The clue that gave it away was my earlier observation of the double // in the url. A members account name will appear there if all is working properly.

I just installed BuddyPress today and encountered this. A did a little digging and found it was using the “nicename” for the url. I went in to the users db via phpmyadmin and changed the nicename to ‘admin’ and now it’s working.

This is an old thread but I didn’t see the solution that worked for me so here goes:

Pretty simple really – when I upgraded BP I had the above issue where all BP pages (groups, activity) etc were redirecting to the homepage. I simply re-ran the BP theme compatibility plugin and now everything works peachy keen again.

It appears I’m experiencing a variation on the common problem discussed above. I’m building a membership-driven site and people should be able to get in to view each member’s profile, including the friends, profile and activity links (left-side)… and I’ve got them all working. My main issue at the moment is the “Album” link – the plugin is bppicture-album, but when you click “album” it goes to the site root.

This happens no matter whether you’re logged-in or not, and therefore it happens even when you’re not logged in as an admin. The link appears correct (no “//”) and I didn’t see anything in my .htaccess file that would indicate what should be done specially with the link.

I had a similar problem where the members profiles were just redirected to the home page so no one could access their profiles. In my case it was related to the buddypress backwards compatibility plugin. I deactivated it and everything started working again! No idea why it broke it though.

Yep, I’m struggling with a similar issue. Just moved a dev site onto a live server for testing. Everything worked fine on my local machine but now all the forum stuff appears to be redirect straight to the homepage.

I’m not a rewrite expert or anything, but here’s the HTTP headers associated with the problem. I’ve replaced my domain with blah.com.

A couple strange things that I see but can’t really explain. When requesting /forums, it looks like a 302 redirect is returned to the homepage (so maybe this is a rewrite issue). Going to “members,” which does work, returns the expected 200 code.

Also, notice the really weird request to /contact/ after all of this is done. Is that normal? It’s just a random page on my site. It had previously been a different page which I tried deleting, so it was replaced by /contact.

Hey I’m getting the problem where only my ‘free subscribers’ are getting redirected to the homepage when they try to access their profile.
Everything else is accessible.
It’s bizzare.
I’m using the latest BP and WP. and S2member.
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